The Story
She owns a sewing shop, but what fiftysomething badass Stella Hardesty
really does is dispense justice to abusive husbands and boyfriends,
having discovered that ''whuppin' ass wasn't so hard.''
TV Pitch
Put Cagney or Lacey in rural Missouri.
Lowdown
Crime fiction hasn't seen a character as scrappy, mean, and incredibly
appealing as Stella in a long time. A-


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